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- AT&T: You want answers?
- TechCrunch: We think we’re entitled to them.
- AT&T: You want answers?!
- TechCrunch: We want Google Voice on our iPhones.
- AT&T: You can’t handle the iPhone with Google Voice!
- AT&T: Son, we operate on network that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by carriers with restrictions. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Verizon Wireless? We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Google Voice and you curse AT&T. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: That pulling Google Voice, while tragic, probably saved the network. And our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the network.
- AT&T: You don’t want the Google Voice on your iPhone. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at TechCrunch50, you want us protecting the network. You need us protecting that network. We use words like rate limiting, application approval and restrictions…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.
- AT&T: We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a blog who writes and profits under the blanket of the very network that we provide, then questions the manner in which we provide it. We’d prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, we suggest you pick up a router and build your own network. Either way, We don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.
- TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
- AT&T: We did the job you sent us to do.
- TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
- AT&T: You’re goddamn right we did.
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Short logic: Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal
Groupon has filed its S-1 and hopes to raise $750M in its initial public offering. Given they’re currently losing a staggering $117M per quarter, despite revenues of $644M, they’ll be burning through that cash almost as soon as it hits their account.
At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to…
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”Color has become a warning sign for investors, entrepreneurs and analysts who fear there is a bubble in start-up investing. They say it shows that venture capitalists, desperate to invest in the next Facebook or LinkedIn, are blindly throwing money at start-ups that have not shown they can build something useful, much less a business that can provide decent returns on investment.
Bubble valuations leads to headless gambling on vapid companies, NYT reports the Color.com story. (via shortlogic)
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”The truth is that most everyone has plenty of ideas that could work out to be great businesses. The kicker is most often the right execution, that they’d be responsible for anyway, at the right time, which is almost impossible to predict. The value of The Perfect Idea is very small indeed.
David Heinemeier Hansson, There’s No Room for The Idea Guy (via davidkaneda)
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”True insight and lasting inspiration are born from creative collisions, from unexpected encounters, from exploring outside your area of expertise.
f5fest.com (via inkaudio)
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Typosquatting Costs Google Advertisers $497M/Yr
Google Benefits from User Mistakes The scheme is a simple one for the perpetrators, according to “Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting.” Owners of such typosquatting sites place ads on them in the hopes that people who accidentally navigate there will click on them. Moore and Edelman, who has done several in-depth and critical studies of Google’s policies, estimate that Google earns about $500 million a year in such misplaced revenues. According to the study, 57% of typo domains include Google pay-per-click ads.
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Monitoring your online reputation
These online services allow you to monitor your brand reputation and your personal reputation
http://www.radian6.com/cms/home
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When marketing music think about what matters.
Ads don’t matter.
Twitter doesn’t matter.
Myspace and Facebook doesn’t matter.
Youtube matters a little.
Radio both offline and online matters.
Your own website matters.
But what matters the most is the music you make.
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